Olympic and Paralympic Parade of Nations/Paris 2024

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All nations of the world with an active National Olympic Committee (NOC) or National Paralympics Committee (NPC) are represented, except Western Sahara and the City of the Vatican (both don't have a NOC or NPC).

Paris 2024 Parade of Nations (Olympics) ― 204 national + 1 special delegations

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The parade was performed with delegations on boats cruising for 6 kilometers on the River Seine from Austerlitz bridge to Iéna bridge, passing around the two main islands at the centre of the city. It was splitted in 5 successive parts, separated by animations on the river borders or bridges, or on nearby monuments including some of the official paralympic sport venues (the Parc Urbain La Concorde, the Esplanade des Invalides, the Grand Palais). Delegations then attended the ceremonial events at Place du Trocadéro. The Olympic cauldron was then lit and risen above Paris below a balloon in the Jardin des Tuileries, and the final musical event was performed from the Eiffel Tower.
Protocolar order for the parade: the founding host delegation (Greece), the IOC-sponsored Refugee Olympic Team (expatriated from 11 countries but not represented by their origin NOC in Olympics), then all other national delegations ordered alphabetically by their protocol name in French, except the three host delegations for the two next and the current Summer olympiads (Australia, United States of America, and France) which terminate the Parade of Nations.
The delegations from Belarus and the Russian Federation, whose NOC have been suspended by decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), have been excluded from competing in the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, but some of their athletes were selected by the IOC to allow them competing individually in a special group without their national flags, anthems or symbols. However, they could not participate to the Paris 2024 Olympics Parade of Nations.
First part of the Olympic Parade of Nations
Second part of the Olympic Parade of Nations
Third part of the Olympic Parade of Nations
Fourth part of the Olympic Parade of Nations
Fifth and final part of the Olympic Parade of Nations

Paris 2024 Parade of Nations (Paralympics) ― 168 national + 1 special delegations

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For the first time in Paralympics (and like for the Olympics), the parade was not performed in a sport stadium, but in the center of Paris with delegations walking along the Avenue des Champs Élysée, from the Arc de Triomphe to the Place de la Concorde, where most ceremonial events too place. The Paralympic cauldron was lit and risen below a balloon in the Jardin des Tuileries.
Protocolar order for the parade: All delegations ordered alphabetically by their protocol name in French (including the IPC-sponsored Refugee Paralympic Team with expatriated athlets from various countries but not represented by their origin NPC in Paralympics), except the three host delegations for the two next and the current Summer olympiads (Australia, United States of America, and France) which terminate the Parade of Nations.
Most national delegations present in the Summer Olympics are also represented in the Summer Paralympics, except for small countries or dependent territories that still don't have an organized NPC recognized by the IPC (in some cases, their paralympic athletes are mixed with those of the NPC of their parent nation, if they could qualify with the paralympic standards). Non-present national delegations that competed for the Olympics but that have no qualified athlets to compete in the Paralympics include: Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Brunei, Comoros, Eswatini, the Faroe Islands, Guam, Guyana, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Palau, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, San Marino, American Samoa, the Seychelles, Tajikistan, Tuvalu, and the British Virgin Islands.
Delegations from Belarus and the Russian Federation, whose NPC have been suspended by decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), were excluded from competing in the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics, but some of their athletes were selected by the IPC and allowed to compete individually in a special group without their national flags, anthems or symbols. However, they could not participate to the Paris 2024 Paralympics Parade of Nations.
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